This Month
Virgin staff offered free cruise trip, up to 32pc above award pay
The airline will try to win agreement for a pay deal it says is worth $50 million, as it attempts to avoid industrial action over Christmas.
- Ayesha de Kretser
Last ditch IR talks to avoid Virgin Christmas chaos
The airline’s cabin crews are threatening strikes over rostering and allowances that Virgin says could unwind productivity gains ahead of its float.
- Ayesha de Kretser
It’s a blue-collar bonanza as the income gap keeps closing
So ingrained is the idea that workers are suffering in today’s world that saying otherwise is almost heretical.
- The Economist
November
Public servants to get bonuses up to $1400 in wage deal
A much watched federal pay deal has been brokered, after a one-off payment was agreed with in principle with the key union, but union elections could derail the agreement.
- David Marin-Guzman and Tom Burton
Virgin ground staff win pay rises of up to 20 per cent
The Transport Workers Union says the Virgin pay deal “corrects pay and conditions after pandemic sacrifice” for staff including baggage handlers and cleaners.
- Ayesha de Kretser
Wages growth hits 14-year high, fuelling inflation fears
Accelerating wages growth will fuel domestic inflation and keep pressure on the RBA to raise interest rates if not matched with higher productivity.
- Updated
- Michael Read and David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Executive pay
These 32 public servants earn more than $1m
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has warned the boards of government-owned businesses they must show restraint on pay and bonuses, amid a new round of high salaries.
- Updated
- Michael Read and Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Opinion
A tech venture capitalist’s manifesto to save the world
Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, who helped create Facebook, Twitter and LinkedInk, has published what critics call a 5000-word rant. It deserves respect.
- Aaron Patrick
October
- Opinion
- Australian economy
How to get fiscal dividend from a jobs, skills and training virtuous cycle
Reforms in vocational and higher education, and migration, can realistically aim to promote economic growth and would more than repay the upfront investment cost.
- Peter Dawkins
Australia’s most in-demand jobs revealed
Actuaries, tax accountants, solicitors and architects are officially in shortage, according to Jobs and Skills Australia’s annual skills priority list.
- Michael Read and Euan Black
- Analysis
- Industrial relations
Why a 36pc pay rise at US car makers won’t inflame inflation
The wage jump over four years demanded by US car workers would lift inflation only slightly, according to new analysis from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan.
- Matthew Cranston
September
Childcare sector unions win first multi-employer bargaining order
Unions say they will seek to force the Albanese government to the bargaining table to fund a real wage increase for 500 centres.
- David Marin-Guzman
Jobs and low inflation goal clashes with workplace changes
Economists say the employment white paper’s goals to cut the jobless rate and keep inflation low clash with Labor’s workplace changes.
- John Kehoe
Pay rises surge, close in on inflation
Average pay rises in new collective agreements have soared to a high of 4.7 per cent, putting pressure on efforts to control inflation.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman
Minns wages policy to be put to test by unions asking 30pc
Budget papers have revealed NSW’s uncapped wages policy could blow out initial estimates of $46 billion as unions prepare to ask for hefty pay rises.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Incomes to stagnate without reform: RBA
A further slowdown in global trade, the cost of the transition to net zero and waning business dynamism are a threat to living standards, the bank says.
- Michael Read
- Exclusive
- NSW budget
NSW uses fund for ‘transformative’ infrastructure for truck stops
A $1.5bn fund set up to build “once in a lifetime, transformative infrastructure” will be spent on regional roads, an aged care facility upgrade, and ambulance bases.
- Samantha Hutchinson
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Victorian TAFEs push for single employer status
The institutes’ teachers are hoping the Fair Work Commission will pave the way for them to bargain collectively.
- Julie Hare
How every Australian missed out on a $25,000 pay rise
Since the internet boom of the 1990s, productivity has slowed and real incomes have suffered as a result, according to a new report.
- John Kehoe
Workers get fair share of pie, says PC as it busts wages myth
Labour’s share of income for 95pc of workers outside of mining and agriculture had declined by less than 1 percentage point over the past 27 years, it says.
- John Kehoe
